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This is College Physics Answers with Shaun Dychko.
To find the instantaneous velocity at 30 seconds, we need to take a tangent line to the curve at this point. So the tangent line will touch the curve only at this point and not at any other point, although it's hard to really see that because this red line is nearly a straight line. But I've drawn a blue line here as my tangent line. So then we find the slope of the tangent by finding out how much it rises, and that's a change in position of about 17 meters at the top minus 4 meters at the bottom. Then we're going to divide that rise by the time interval over which this change of position occurs. So it starts at about 10 seconds up to about 70 seconds and so that's a time interval of 10 minus 70, 70 minus 10 which is 60 seconds. So we have the velocity then is 13 meters divided by 60 seconds which is 0.217 meters per second which is close enough to 0.238 meters per second that we were meant to verify. We don't expect to get exactly that number because we're doing an approximation here visually using a graph. So, close enough though.